Seven-year-old 'celebrity' wolf killed by trophy hunter less than five miles from national park entrance
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks confirmed the wolf, officially named Lamar Canyon Wolf Pack Member 926F, was killed legally
A seven-year-old wild wolf well-known amongst animal lovers and nicknamed 'Spitfire' was killed by a trophy hunter after she wandered outside the Yellowstone National Park. Officially called Lamar Canyon Wolf Pack Member 926F by the scientists who had been religiously tracking her, she was hunted down and shot in Montana.
According to the Daily Mail, Spitfire — also called the 'Queen of Lamar Valley' — came to suffer the same unfortunate fate as her equally famous mother, the alpha female wolf 832F who died in 2012, and her uncle 754M. Better known as 06, reportedly a reference to the year she was born, Spitfire's mother had even been the inspiration for the book 'American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West.'